"Useless talent number 66. I'm very pliable."

Rachel Fudge's article The Buffy Effect or, A Tale of Cleavage and Marketing goes through the image in the television box of the 90's that was Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I did not know this but Buffy actually started out as a failed movie that really was nothing special. Cue the television series. Buffy was created as a way to erase or oppose the typical ideal of women in nearly all of monster horror. As Fudge said, "Instead of shouting, 'Don't do in there!' to the naive girl traipsing through the darkened vacant house, we shout, 'Go, girl!' as Buffy enters the dark alleys to dispatch the monster of the moment with her quick thinking and martial-arts prowess." While Buffy may seem to be a ditsy version of Van Hellsing decked out in the latest fashions, Fudge comments that it is her womanhood that makes her different than the other vampire slayers before her. Also, it is her exemplification of her "girl power" that makes her strong. Instead of just wearing a girl power t-shirt, she is actually out there fighting vampires, and doing the dirty work while still remaining womanly.
Fudge also mentions how Buffy was a television show that did more than just energize people by killing vampires. Buffy actually could be used as a big metaphor for the struggles that all high schoolers, girls and guys alike, face on a day to day basis. Fudge calls it the "high-school-as-hell" metaphor.
I have not personally watched much Buffy at all, but I do remember one clip. All that happens is while Buffy is lying on her bed, presumably deep in thought, she nonchalantly reaches to the side of her bed and grabs a battle ax. Ridiculously awesome.
So, this is my case-in-point, Rose McGowan as Cherry in Planet Terror. I know, I know, who watches this but guys, I know, but I feel like this actually shows a lot of Buffyesque action like Fudge talked about. She kicks butt while still remaining womanly. Also, one little plot point is that she has at least 100 useless talents. At the end of the film she uses these talents....and an M16 to take out all the bad guys who just so happen to be mutants.
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